Principal Investigator(s):Rabier, Jacques-Rene, European Commission; Inglehart, Ronald, University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies

Summary:

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys queried respondents on
standard Euro-Barometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with
their present life, whether they attempted to persuade others close to
them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about,
whether they discussed political matters, what their country's goals
should be for the next ten years, and how they viewed the need for
societal change. Additional questions focused on the respondents'
knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC), includi... (more info)

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys queried respondents on
standard Euro-Barometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with
their present life, whether they attempted to persuade others close to
them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about,
whether they discussed political matters, what their country's goals
should be for the next ten years, and how they viewed the need for
societal change. Additional questions focused on the respondents'
knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC), including
how well-informed they felt about the EC, what sources of information
about the EC they used, whether their country had benefited from being
an EC member, and the extent of their personal interest in EC
matters. Another major focus of the surveys was on the causes and
consequences of unemployment, both generally and among women and youth
in particular. Those who had been unemployed during the previous three
years were asked about their ability to obtain various kinds of public
assistance and how selective they were when looking for work.
Attitudes toward the European Parliamentary elections (postponed from
1978 to 1979) also continued to be measured. Demographic information
gathered includes respondents' religion, education, occupation,
marital status, age, and sex, as well as the occupation of the head of
household and the composition of the household. In addition to the
survey itself, the ICPSR version of the study contains constructed
indices on materialist/post-materialist values, left-right partisan
vote, European Parliament partisan vote, and cognitive mobilization
(an indicator of an individual's potential to take an active role in
the political process). Euro-Barometer 9 contains data gathered from
representative samples of respondents aged 15 or older interviewed in
each of the nine nations of the EC (Germany, Great Britain, Denmark,
Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Netherlands) in April
1978.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Rabier, Jacques-Rene, and Ronald Inglehart. Euro-Barometer 9: Employment and Unemployment in Europe, April 1978. ICPSR07727-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07727.v1

Universe:
Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
and the Netherlands.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The text of the British questionnaire was used in
constructing the codebook.

The rural population was
underrepresented in the French sample. In order to correct the sample
by age, by sex, and by degree of urbanization, the French weight
variable should be used.

Methodology

Sample:
The sampling designs were either multistage national
probability samples (Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands) or
stratified national quota samples (France, Germany, Great Britain
[including Northern Ireland], Italy, Ireland, and Luxembourg).

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: